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31 Oct 2022, 9:24 am
[My new paper on the First Amendment, Pickering balancing, and extramural speech] For over a century, the American Association of University Professors has urged universities to recognize a robust freedom for professors to speak in public "as citizens" without fear of retaliation from their university employers even when such expression is controversial with either external or internal constituencies. [read post]
28 Feb 2023, 5:06 am
[A poorly drafted and conceptually ambitious upending of norms of state university independence] Over in Chronicle of Higher Education, I have a new piece examining HB 999 in the Florida legislature and its implications for the future of Republican politics around higher education. [read post]
18 Feb 2022, 1:53 pm
[The lieutenant governor of Texas elevates the idea of ending tenure at public universities] Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick held a press conference today to respond to the Faculty Council of the University of Texas, which recently passed a resolution reemphasizing the importance of academic freedom at the university and denouncing political interventions in the university curriculum. [read post]
16 Jul 2023, 8:44 am
I am pleased to see that my latest article on the efforts of state legislatures to restrict what ideas professors can endorse in the classroom has now been published. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 7:51 am
[The AFA calls on Collin College to reinstate Professor Michael Phillips] The Academic Freedom Alliance released a public letter to Collin College objecting to its treatment of Professor Michael Phillips. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 4:28 am
[Universities should not be in the political activism business] The University of California system is debating whether to allow academic departments to issue political statements. [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 7:43 am
[Supporting Hamas butchery of Israeli civilians is beyond the pale] The extraordinary outpouring of support on American university campuses for the events of October 7th has, unsurprisingly, led to some backlash from alumni, donors, and future employers. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 9:14 am
[To defend the Stop WOKE Act, Florida asks court to eliminate any academic freedom exception to government employee speech doctrine] This past summer Florida adopted House Bill 7, better known as the Stop WOKE Act. [read post]
6 Jul 2023, 1:04 pm
[Is "intramural" professorial speech protected by the First Amendment?] [read post]
29 Mar 2022, 4:30 am
[Campus administratve unit crosses a line in campaign to shame a sitting member of the faculty] The Academic Freedom Alliance released a public letter to Princeton University calling on the university to reaffirm the academic freedom of classics professor Joshua Katz. [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 2:25 pm
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has posted a faculty letter in support of Stephen Kershnar, the philosophy professor currently barred from the SUNY Fredonia campus for publicly engaging in a philosophical discussion of the immorality of sexual acts between children and adults. [read post]
16 Dec 2021, 9:42 am
[A conversation with the president of Claremont McKenna College, the school at the top of the free-speech rankings] A new episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast from the Academic Freedom Alliance is now available. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 7:31 am
[A conversation with the chancellor of the University of California at Irvine about academic freedom] A new episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast from the Academic Freedom Alliance is now available. [read post]
16 Sep 2023, 5:00 am
[An unusual move in an unusual impeachment] In a hotly contested election, the voters of Wisconsin flipped control of the state supreme court from the Republicans to the Democrats. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 6:58 am
[A proposed bill would do just that] It is hard to know when to get excited about bills introduced in state legislatures. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 7:34 am
[Doctor sanctioned for comments to journalists about transgender athletes] The Academic Freedom Alliance released a public letter to the Mayo Clinic regarding the sanctions that it has imposed on Dr. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 8:36 am
Tara Leigh Grove and I discuss our work as commissioners on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States and various proposals for reforming the Supreme Court on the latest edition of the We the People podcast. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 9:18 am
[So says the DC Circuit Court] The D.C. [read post]
31 Jul 2024, 6:23 am
[So much for constitutional norms] New from me in The Dispatch is a breakdown of the administration's newly announced "reforms" for the U.S. [read post]
7 Jan 2022, 9:10 am
The Omicron wave of COVID has many institutions scrambling. [read post]
